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As an industrial clerk you are in demand for matters concerning control of company processes: whether in Materials Purchasing, Warehousing or Manufacturing. After your apprenticeship you will be an all-rounder and can support us in many corporate areas, depending on which area is of special interest to you.

Your future speciality area

• Purchasing of materials and organizing the warehousing
• Selling and shipping goods
• Working in calculation, accounting, and product marketing
• Contact with customers and suppliers, including customers and suppliers who speak foreign languages

Duration

• 2.5 to 3 years

As a wholesale and foreign trade clerk you are the connecting link between our suppliers and our customers. You purchase goods from diverse suppliers and resell them to major accounts – always with a watchful eye on numbers and stock levels

Your future speciality area

• Exciting insight into the Import and Export departments
• Purchasing and selling Böllhoff products and our own brands
• Contact with customers and suppliers, including customers and suppliers who speak foreign languages 
• Warehouse management and monitoring of delivery dates 

Duration

• 2.5 to 3 years

As an office clerk you, have a constant overview of all office processes and business processes. Your diversified task area ranges from administrative activities to drafting texts and taking minutes.

Your speciality area

• Help and support in all relevant clerical and secretarial tasks
• Preparing presentations
• Support at diverse events
• Scheduling & organization of appointments
• Telephone service in the reception area
• Assigning invoices to accounts, processing the mail and much more.

Duration

• 2.5 to 3 years

As an eCommerce clerk, you are involved in various operational and strategic issues relating to all aspects of our eShop. You deal with digital projects, such as online marketplaces or customer-specific electronic catalogues

Your future speciality area

• Processing eShop registrations and orders
• Extending the eShop product range
• Evaluating user behaviour of eShop customers
• Collaboration in enhancing usability
• Support in the concept stage, preparation and execution of online marketing measures

Duration

• 2.5 to 3 years 

You mount or install electrical equipment and systems and or you are involved in the monitoring, repair and installation of our building technology. As a trained specialist for electrical engineering you are also an important point of contact for our Service area.

Your future speciality area

• Mounting and installing electrical equipment and commissioning of equipment and machines
• Repair, inspection and maintenance of measuring, control and regulating devices
• Inspection of electronic components
• Installation and configuration of IT systems

Duration

• 3 to 3.5 years

As an industrial mechanic you are the jack of all trades in our Manufacturing area. You ensure that our machines run smoothly at all times and monitor the production of components and assemblies. Thanks to your watchful eye, thousands and thousands of fasteners can leave our production facilities daily.

Your speciality area

• Organization of manufacturing processes
• Communication with internal and external customers
• Producing components and assemblies
• Installing, inspecting and maintaining technical equipment and systems

Duration

• 3.5 years 

As a machine and equipment operator (m/f/d) you prepare the workflows, verify machine functions on test rigs and commission new machines. You monitor the production process and control the material flow. In addition, you inspect and service the equipment at regular intervals to ensure constant operability

Your future speciality area

• Setting up, operating, and retooling machines and equipment
• Monitoring machines
• Rectifying faults
• Servicing machines

Duration

• 2 years

As a mechatronics technician your constant companions in the day-to-day work routine are mechanical, electrical and technical control components. You mount various components, install controllers and program complex systems – in short: you are the pro behind our production technology

Your future speciality area

• Planning and control of workflows
• Machining mechanical parts and putting components together to make systems
• Installing electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic components
• Programming mechatronic systems

Duration

• 3.5 years

Technical product designers are the creative talents behind our products and manufacturing machines. In this role you create technical drawings in CAD and 3D drawing programs and through your work you optimize our product portfolio

Your future speciality area

• Planning, preparing and using technical documentation
• Using CAD/CAM systems
• Preparing design drafts
• Evaluating manufacturing assembly and joining processes
• Preparing technical drawings using 3D drawing programs

Duration

• 3.5 years

As a process mechanic for plastics technology you deal with injection moulding machines on a daily basis. These are high-tech devices, in which our fastening elements made of plastic are manufactured. You set up the machines, prepare the injection moulds and monitor the manufacturing workflows, in short, you do everything to ensure that our plastic parts are formed correctly

Your future speciality area

• Preparing and setting up machines for processing thermoplastic materials
• Provisioning moulding compounds for processing and testing quality

Duration

• 3 years

As a process technologist you know the automatic forming machines in our Sonnewalde production facility inside and out. Thus you ensure that more than a billion self-piercing rivets can be produced in the machines every year – these are special fastening elements that are used to join auto body parts together, among other things.

Your future speciality area

• Setting up, establishing and monitoring the entire RIVSET® and RIVTAC® fasteners manufacturing process
• Complying with rigorous quality requirements
• Care and maintenance of and the responsibility for all the machinery

Duration

• 3.5 years

As a physics lab assistant you perform the physical measurements and various trials. You test the composition and properties of various materials and play an important role in the company's quality processes.

Your future speciality area

• Execution of physical measurements and test series
• Setup of test equipment
• Preparation and execution of measurements and tests and documentation

Duration

• 3.5 years

As a materials tester you play a central role in our quality assurance. You perform various measurements and tests in our lab and analyse manufacturing processes. Thus you ensure that our fasteners always meet all customer requirements.

Your future speciality area

• Introduction and use of new test methods
• Assessment of manufacturing processes and their influence
• Use of qualified analysis methods
• Independent detection and assessment of material values and geometry values

Duration

• 3 to 3.5 years

As a tool mechanic you ensure that our plastic fastening elements are moulded to specification. You make and repair various injection moulds for our injection moulding machines – for example, in CNC milling processes. Products, such as our SNAPLOC® plug-in connections are produced in the moulds.

Your future speciality area

• Planning and control of the workflows
• Manufacturing of individual parts of various materials on CNC machines and other machine tools
• Programming and operating numerically controlled machines
• Producing mould surfaces with precision machining methods

Duration

• 3.5 years

As a cutting machine operator you play an important role in our manufacturing. You evaluate the feasibility of production jobs and produce diverse components in automatic production processes. In doing so, you always comply with the specific requirements of our customers.

Your future speciality area

• Analysis and evaluation of production orders
• Selection of manufacturing systems and planning manufacturing processes
• Manufacturing components in accordance with a drawing template through automated production processes

Duration

• 3.5 years

As an IT specialist – application development, you are our pro for developing software solutions for the entire corporate group – national and international. Therefore programming languages are, so to speak, your second native language

Your future speciality area

• The fundamentals of applied information technology
• Working with the major programming languages
• Supporting diverse software projects, also internationally
• Learning software engineering methods 
• Realisation of exciting software projects for our customers

Duration

• 2.5 to 3 years 

As an IT specialist – system integration, your passion is networking hardware and software. You configure and commission complex systems – always keeping in mind the requirements of our approximately 3,000 users around the world.

Your future speciality area

• Implementation of well thought-out IT system solutions for the entire Böllhoff Group
• Advising, supporting and training internal employees
• Rectifying faults
• Installing, configuring, and commissioning complex systems

Duration

• 2.5 to 3 years 

At our headquarters in Bielefeld, you will work in all departments relevant to this apprenticeship and gain a comprehensive insight into an international company. You will support your colleagues in day-to-day business.

Your future speciality area

• Analyzing work and business processes
• Analyzing data sources and providing data
• Using data to optimize work and business processes and to optimize digital business models
• Implementing data protection and data security protection goals

Duration

2.5 to 3 years

As a warehouse logistics specialist your favourite means of transport are forklifts and lift trucks. With this equipment you load and unload goods, or transport goods to the proper storage locations. In addition, you check the accompanying documents and take care of the planning and organization of logistics processes. Boredom is rare.

Your future speciality area

• Receiving, storing and picking goods
• Planning and organizing logistics processes
• Checking accompanying documents
• Selecting means of transport and collaborating in route planning

Duration

• 2.5 to 3 years

As a warehouse clerk you are involved when goods are moved within our warehouse: Whether they have just arrived, are placed in stock or they must be prepared for shipment. Depending on the workstation you take care of goods receipt, further processing, or packaging and shipment. In between, with forklift and lift truck you ensure that all goods in the warehouse go where they are needed.

Your future special area

• Goods receipt and sorting
• Packaging and shipment tasks in the Shipping departments
• Preparing accompanying documents

Duration

• 2 years

As a freight forwarding and logistics services clerk you are the brains behind all shipments in Goods Receipt and Goods Issue. Consequently, you know precisely when what goods leave our warehouse or arrive at our warehouse. Whether this involves suitable transport routes and means of transport, price calculations or preparation of shipping documents: You are the person who makes the shipping processes possible.

Your future speciality area

• Determining suitable routes and means of transport
• Drawing up schedules
• Advising and supporting customers

Duration

• 2.5 to 3 years